IH-634S - 21oz Selvedge Denim Straight Cut Jeans - Indigo

[cbmyles]

@Oaktavia these boots are crazyyy

[akeno93]

A little over 6 months with 2 washes.

[Melquíades]

Hey folks! I recently traded for a pair of 634s and they seem a little weird. They are second hand, so obviously there will be some wear on ‘em, but two things jumped out at me.

1. The leather flasher tag is very messily sewn on. As if done by hand.

2. Only 1 belt loop, the back one, is tucked under the waistband. The rest are not.

Could this be a factory second pair? I’ve owned plenty of IH, and know the brand well so as far as I know IH does not do releases of their seconds.

Let me know what ya’ll think!

[goosehd]

@Melquíades As you stated…does not release seconds.

[Melquíades]

@goosehd well it’s definitely the 21 oz denim, so I’m not sure what happened here.

[goosehd]

@Melquíades you could always ask the seller. It looks like someone took the leather patch off the jeans at some point in time and tried to sew it back on themselves. Poorly done…

Just the other day there was someone on here looking for a patch and it may/could have been the same person who sold you these jeans. It could have been they ruined the patch in a hot soak, didn’t like the patch and took it off, or something else.

Your best bet is to contact the seller and see if they know anything.

[Giles]

That patch has been sewn on (badly) by hand.

But apart from that they look legit.

No image of the belt loop sewn into waitband, so I can't comment on that.

[Melquíades]

@Giles thanks for chiming in! Always great to hear from you guys.

The 3rd image shows the right side and front-right side belt loops, both of which should be sewn in but are not. Thanks for looking!

[Giles]

We never used to sew the belt loops of the IH-634S (and some 634S derivatives) into the waist band. I am more intrigued by the one you is…

[endo]

[SamD]

Just to confirm, we do reinforce the belt loop on the 634S — but as Giles has mentioned, this may not have always been the case on older models, so it's still not definitive proof of a fake.

[Giles]

When I started working with Haraki, none of jeans had the belt loops sewn into the waistband. I specified them on all jeans I initiated, but the IH-634S was obviously not one of them. It took a few years to transition to sewn in belt loops on the 634 cut.

[Melquíades]

@Giles said in IH-634S - 21oz Selvedge Denim Straight Cut Jeans - Indigo:

When I started working with Haraki, none of jeans had the belt loops sewn into the waistband. I specified them on all jeans I initiated, but the IH-634S was obviously not one of them. It took a few years to transition to sewn in belt loops on the 634 cut.

This pair has only the back belt loop tucked under. I imagine Haraki did this because he wore a belt whilst on the bike (?)

[Giles]

No, the original IH-634S had none of the bely loops tucked into the waist band. So yours are some sort of anomaly....Hence me asking to see a photo. Yours have obviously had some "work" done to them (patch), so I wanted to see the loop....